On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:56 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > We should probably give Stephen a cc here ... > > Heh. I already did, but then that got broken because Andrew had lost > that part of the thread and the discussion re-started. > > So Stephen was already cc'd for my original request to have linux-next > kick things out aggressively. > Well, if (for example) we look at "linux-next test error: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ovs_ct_exit" (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000e642a905a0cbee6e@xxxxxxxxxx/), it was sent to the maintainers of net/openvswitch/ where the warning occurred. It was then ignored. Would it help if bugs blocking testing on linux-next were Cc'ed to linux-next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so that Stephen could investigate? FWIW, the issue of "syzbot report sent and ignored for months/years" is actually a much broader one which applies to all bugs, not just build / test breakages. There are tons of open bugs on https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream which are definitely still valid (sort by "Last" occurred). Long-term, to fix this we really need syzbot to start sending reminders. But first there's work needed to make the noise level low enough so that people don't just tune them out. - Eric
